Baldiness

January 20th, 2007

Bald Blogs #6: I Am Not Meant To Be Bald

Meet Ali, who blogs at “Do My Shoes Match?” She is a mother of four (including a set of twins). She is a Marine wife whose husband was wounded in Iraq. And, as if that weren’t enough, she is battling breast cancer. She popped up on my radar for her most recent post, excerpted here:
My […]

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January 19th, 2007

Stylish Noggins

CBS News 8 is on a roll when it comes to reporting the Bald Truth. Introducing Stylish Noggins, founded by Susie Faber and Kari Miltenberger, two young ladies who are helping others to cope with hair loss. From their website.
Stylish Noggins is about helping people feel better about themselves, especially those coping with cancer, alopecia, […]

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January 18th, 2007

Head Shaving Theater

Texarkana College is getting involved with Locks of Love. CBS News 8 reports that more than 30 people lined up Monday night to donate their hair in conjunction with an upcoming play about a professor who has ovarian cancer. Clint Williams, a student representative said, “The upcoming show is ‘W;t,’ about an ovarian cancer patient. […]

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January 17th, 2007

Shat-Tastic Quote

(No, Kerri, I actually mean “shat-tastic” in the original ABC-Show-Me-the-Money-game-show sense; not my re-interpretation.)
Found this over at The Wave Magazine, and it’s priceless. From none other that William Shatner, in response to whether or not he wears a rug:
“It’s a question like asking somebody, ‘Did you have breast implants?’ Or, ‘When did you get your […]

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January 16th, 2007

Bald Is Beautiful

“I’ve learned in the last year that bald is beautiful and people love you with or without hair.”
That alone is enough to warrant a mention here, but for those of you struggling with chemotherapy related hair loss, you’ll want to read all of Jane Younce’s column. Ms. Younce is a survivor of ovarian cancer, and […]

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January 15th, 2007

Martin Luther King, Jr

Probably only a 2A or 3A on the Hamilton-Norwood Scale, but Rev. King is worth a mention any way you can work it. Truly one of the great men in history. Here are some of his best known words archived on You Tube:

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January 14th, 2007

Baldiness Library Card

You know, I never did learn how to use one of those things properly. Thank goodness we can search electronically.

(Make your’s @ blyberg.net)
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January 13th, 2007

Bald Quotes #14

“Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.”
~Jimmy Breslin
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January 12th, 2007

Body Hair Transplants?

So I see this news item about the DermHair Clinic that touts a “new technique” for dealing with hair loss. I almost skip over it, because I’m getting a bit numb to the miracle breakthroughs designed to part individuals from their money with ever increasing creativity. (The cynicism isn’t new, it’s always been there.) But […]

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January 11th, 2007

Best of Baldiness - 2006

So, It’s time for another b5 Science & Health Channel Topic du Jour, and our theme this month is the Best of 2006. So, let me comb (get it? comb? get it? I don’t think he gets it, Marty.) through my archives, to see if there’s anything I said worth reminding ourselves of…
hmmm… There must […]

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